Words worth keeping

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

The earth laughs in flowers.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.